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English has different words for mouse and rat but in Chinese they're both the same creature (laoshu) so I asked my mom well how do you differentiate between mice and rats. She, clearly having never felt the need to do so, was like uhh big laoshu and little laoshu I guess. Then I went online to see how the difference between (the English words) "mouse" and "rat" was being explained to CN->EN learners and there are numerous articles delving deep into the analysis. Bigger vs smaller, indoors vs outdoors, cute and favorable connotations vs evil and ugly, tail length, fear factor, emphasis on the fact that you cannot call it a "computer rat." Much thought is being expended on this little mystery of the English language

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that post that's like "what's wrong with joining the army to kill people ain't that the point" always reminds me of how a few years into the iraq war this volunteer american soldier gave an interview to the washington post where he said exactly that and candidly confessed to having already killed someone for fun but being disappointed by how easy and unexciting he felt it was, and a month later he planned and participated in a gang rape and massacre of a little girl and her family. average poor dumb kid from little old usa just trying to afford college

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I could go back to madrid for a post laurea internship but tbh while i was there my immune system was steamrolled by the madrid metro and I'm not ready to have an insane fever every month again

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Total man-hours wasted on this (so far): 32 🔥🔥🔥🔥

fun sudoku puzzle that is slowly taking over the nerds of the dorm: link

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american puritan names have nothing on the first name of this 17th century dutch woman artist i just read about. my girl Tesselschade ('texel damage') named after the shipwrecking of her father's 44 trade ships on the coast of the island Texel in 1593.

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The breadth of the museum is made possible by downloading text and images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Every exhibit in the museum corresponds to a Wikipedia article. The walls of the exhibit are covered in images and text from the article, and hallways lead out to other exhibits based on the article's links. The museum is greatly inspired by educational videos that I watched as a kid, and the liminal spaces produced by early CGI. I want to recapture the promise that the internet can be a place of endless learning and exploration. I hope you enjoy your time exploring the Museum of All Things!

This is very pleasant (and free). I somehow almost immediately found myself in the room dedicated to the time when the Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped a bunch of human waste on a river cruise boat lol

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GAY LOVE WINS

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“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”

–Jonny von Neumann, proved correct in this paper. 

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fun sudoku puzzle that is slowly taking over the nerds of the dorm: link

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less fanfiction is inherently bad and therefore shameful to joke about dante or shakespeare or any number of classic works being fanfiction due to their referential and intertextual nature and more damn isnt it crazy derivative and intertextual works have been like one of the major pillars of storytelling for millennia and now suddenly this is like illegal to do with modern works without a studio executive or lawyers or formal contracts and money exchanging hands and one of the few legally ignored ways to still do that is exclusively available to people writing mostly anonymously in specific communities for amateurs with highly specific community interests and norms and storytelling desires who can receive no money or great fame from this endeavor lest the lawyers come after you because this is also still not really legal anyways its genuinely fucked up you suddenly cant just write books about a bunch of characters created by other people less than 100 years ago and reinterpret and reengage with them in exciting new ways

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Sorry this is the funniest fucking criticism on sabrina carpenter

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the pitt should be 23 seasons long and they should all be 23 consecutive days and they just never explain why the characters have aged at such rapid speed its the stress of being in healthcare you see #TheirStress

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linkpost of rss of sff short stories magazines

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Fighting for my LIFE to get a dataset to behave